...but my #25 didn't, as NDSU is moving all the way up to #3. This is the one exception to my post-bowls rule of "play it completely straight", as I'm ranking the Bison here specifically to counter the folks who wouldn't consider ranking an FCS team.

It'll be interesting to see how many people drop Notre Dame, and how far they drop them. For all the talk of Notre Dame being "exposed", they still end the season at 12-1 having only lost to the champion.

Ohio State jumps Oklahoma by virtue of winning their bowl game. (I also would have jumped Ohio State over Notre Dame had Alabama won, because ND would be two steps removed from the champion instead of one.)

Florida being worse than A&M is probably the most controversial part of this ballot, as the Gators had fewer losses in a theoretically better division. But they also had a clearly worse non-conference schedule.

UCF is a team I expect the pollsters to heavily differ on, because they were down their best player in their only loss. I don't give a shit about that, so I'm ranking them as I'd rank any other one-loss G5 team.